Monday Morning Mediabase Update: June 11-17

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Another week, another two charts topped by Idols. Season 1 American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson continues to top the AC chart with “Stronger” while Canadian Idol 3rd Place finisher Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” tops the Pop chart.

Kelly isn’t willing to rest on her laurels, though. Her latest single, “Dark Side”, achieved two milestones as well. This third single from her fifth album went top 40 on Pop and top 50 on AC. Carly Rae’s “Call Me Maybe” also went top 40 on Rhythmic.

Season 6 Idol winner, Jordin Sparks is appearing this summer in a movie with Whitney Houston. A song from that soundtrack called “Celebrate” and featuring them both went top 20 on UAC this week.

Phillip Phillips, the latest Idol winner, had his coronation song, “Home” go top 40 on HAC.

One Direction, third place finishers on season 7 of the X-Factor, had a milestone with their second single. “One Thing” went top 20 on Pop giving them two songs in the top 20 in that format. “What Makes You Beautiful” is top 10 in two formats, top 20 in three formats and top 50 in four formats. Cher Lloyd who finished one spot back of them on X-Factor also got a milestone with a song that sets my teeth on edge, “Want U Back”, going top 30 on Pop. Interestingly, the second place finisher from that season, Rebecca Fergusen, is also on the US charts. The only one from the top 4 missing is the winner. It’s probably far more important to win Simon over than to win.

Adam Lambert:
“Never Close Our Eyes”: ^36 HAC (37)

Carly Rae Jepsen (CI):
Call Me Maybe: ^1 Pop (1); ^4 HAC (5), ^21 AC (22), ^33 RHY (42)

Carrie Underwood:
“Good Girl”: 8 Country (4), ^22 HAC (21); 33 AC (31)

Cher Lloyd:
“Want U Back”; ^26 Pop (32)

Daughtry:
“Outta My Head”: ^25 HAC (24)

Haley Reinhart:
“Free”: ^28 HAC (27)

Jordin Sparks:
“Celebrate” feat. Whitney Houston: 37 AC (35); ^19 UAC (23)

Kelly Clarkson:
“Dark Side”: ^21 HAC (25); ^37 Pop (46); 50 AC (-)
“Mr. Know It All”: ^23 Country (24)
“Stronger”: 8 HAC (9); ^1 AC (1)

Kris Allen:
“The Vision of Love”: ^33 HAC (30); 32 AC (39)

Leah Labelle:
“Sexify”: ^50 Urban (50)

Michael Lynche:
“Who’s Gonna Love You”: 36 UAC (35)

Mandisa:
“Good Morning”: ^23 CAC (23)

One Direction (UK XF):
“One Thing” ^19 Pop (23)
“What Makes You Beautiful”: 4 Pop (4); ^6 HAC (7); 41 RHY (44), ^19 AC (20)

Phillip Phillips:
“Home”: ^37 HAC 43

Rebecca Fergusen:
“Nothing’s Real but Love”: ^48 HAC 50

Scotty McCreery:
“Water Tower Town”: ^45 Country (46)

Stefano:
“I’m on a Roll”: ^46 Pop (48)

Note: Numbers indicate position on the chart while numbers in brackets indicate the position on the chart the previous week. The “^” (aka “a bullet”) indicates that a song gained spins since last week

Adds listed on AllAccess:
June 18: Country: Casey James: “Cryin’ on a Suitcase”
June 18: HAC: Hedley (CI): “Kiss You Inside Out”
June 18: AC: Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks: “Celebrate”
June 26: Pop: Chris Rene: “Trouble”
July 10: Pop: Olly Murs: “Heart Skips a Beat” featuring Chiddy Bang

This is the daily numbers thread for Monday. Stats collected on Monday morning.

 
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  • Tess

    But Top 40 does not, in most cases, careers make.  Sure….short term and half a dozen songs….but if someone on top 40 doesn’t have what it takes to appeal to an older demographic (and ALL listeners get older) they join the ever longer list of one album or even one song wonders.  If these top 40 phenoms don’t have another genre to fall back on they fade very quickly…they HAVE TO BE more than one trick ponies.  The peeps who make it have voices and material that transcend pop…whether it be jazz or soul or R&B or country or yes (heaven forbid) AC and club music.

    My whole argument is that Top 40 is nice and quite lucrative….but it isn’t the be-all and end-all for musical careers.  For every one person who makes it by starting out on Top 40 I can name hundreds who find it the graveyards of their careers, just as fast.

  • Anonymous

    Top 40 prefers female artists, and males with higher pitched voices, so that the predominately tween and teen audience can sing along with the singer. 

    This may be a common argument, but I haven’t heard it articulated so explicitly before.  It makes sense.  Thanks.  (The interesting thing is that 18-24 and 25-34 actually make up nearly half the audience, but it’s slightly more popular with women in that group than men, so the story may still hold.)

  • http://twitter.com/tinawinabina Tinawina

    My point was he made it sound more like something that could play on pop radio. And yes, the judges liked it but I’m talking about the audience’s reaction to these things. It’s not like that one is one of his most popular, buzzed about performances.

    Anyway, its not that big a deal.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/DJ4FPAE2BM4XDCNVQITJSS3S2Q Sue

    No thank you to watered down lite/soft cream cheese rock! Gimme aggression, loud guitars and lots of screaming.

  • Anonymous

    “Eh, have you looked at the alt/AAA charts lately?  Grouplove, Imagine
    Dragons, Monsters and Men…a lot of modern rock in its current form is
    not Led Zeppelin.  But most of these contestants aren’t reminding me of
    James Taylor, either. ”

    Yeah, I know. I was joking, not so much about Idol as about what a lot of modern rock sounds like to me, with my old ears. Kind of like a dead zone, frequently. I hear something now and again that I like, but actually a lot of it reminds me of James Taylor, a bit…. didn’t really like him either.

    I just like more intense music and interesting music. Not Daughtry style, in other words. Or Coldplay. (and they’re, like, ancient now … heh) When I try to bend my mind around Lee being a rock singer…well…

    And, of course, when they’re on Idol they don’t get to make up for any of that with much musical or lyrical intensity or edge or creativity. The 4/4, i-iv-v, with not much vocal embellishment applied to songs that I’ve heard ten thousand times tends to make a lot of the “rockers” duller to me than some of the other Idol folks during the season, I suppose.

  • Anonymous

    I just like more intense music and interesting music.

    I think my issue is that somewhere along the line, a lot of rock music decided that being “intense” was more important than being “interesting.” 

    A lot of 70s and 80s arena rock chose bombast over creativity, IMO (although there’s certainly some that I love). And I loved some grunge (particularly the stuff that had more roots in punk), and some of the more Southern-rock influenced post-grunge I liked, but the “all 4-chord, Drop-D, all the time” ethos on the rock airwaves for so long makes me find a lot of the more melodic stuff today to be far better structured and a real breath of fresh air.  And not at all Taylor-like.

    As for AI, the same treatment applied to any set of songs heard a zillion times makes them dull.  I just care about whether or not the phrasing and instrumentation actually support the song or not, regardless of genre.  I can point to contestants in all of those genres who have done those things much better than others.

  • iani

    Is it a fluke that Dr.Luke can created a smashing killer hit for one
    artist and a total flop for another one the very same month? I think
    not, but that’s just me.

    Artists like Pink, Kesha, KP, GaGa…, all have collaborated with Dr. Luke, Max Martin also, I don’t think Adam has ever done that, to write his song and send it to the Luke/ Martin “team” to make it current or to stay together at the same table and write(as having a writing section), except to “put your beat on this song, Dr. Luke”!. Has ever RCA put Adam face to face with “the team” in order to come with some hits as maybe the other artists have done? It’s about writing the right song for your style, personality, voice-related, not only “I want a popular song with a popular sound”; bring on some chemistry of the song, the connection voice-format(if it’s pop, R&B, Rock or whatever). Adam has had, as singles from last the album, BTIKM- was written I think like 2 years ago by Claude Kelly/Dr. Luke and more, waiting maybe for a singer and NCOE-a Bruno Mars song for his last album, no connection whatsoever with Adam-the artist but Adam the singer and because he can sing anything, the songs have had an “owner”. I don’t care if the song is written by Adam or not, I would like a song written for “the artist” not the song for an artist. How about the connection voice/style, the album’s message overall? The song didn’t fit Bruno’s album but has fit Adam’s? Not so much, not even the artist’s style in MO.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002166668687 Ali Goria

    “Top 40 prefers female artists, and males with higher pitched voices, so that the predominately tween and teen audience can sing along with the singer.”

    I agree but there’s also the hip hop and rap influence that infiltrated Pop I’d say over the past 3 years, even though at the moment weird or novelty songs and bubble gum (for lack of a better term) seems to be the new thing. But the new BOB Taylor collab is mostly ALL rap with Taylor just singing the same 16 words in melody form over and over. And over. LOL.

     I know several <30 age people who live for rap music even Eminem who's made his way onto pop a few times. A good example is Flo Rida with about 7 top 10 hits in the past 4 years or so.

    I think these pop stars have gotten very clever (shady) introducing "featuring" artists cross genre onto their singles so as to extract every single penny possible from pop listeners lol. 

    I don't follow it THAT closely but it seems I hear alot of traditional rap (and guys) with some poppy influence on pop radio.

  • Anonymous

     Todrick Hall did hit, Naima did it, S10 Jimmy brought in a team of producers who put dance or hip hop beats behind various songs, Jessica flipped a couple of songs this year… and no one cared

    But can you name someone who did this well.  I don’t think it was the flipping of the songs that got a poor response, it was the poor execution of the songs.  Naima’s singing always sounded horrible when she would put the emphasis on her dancing, and the songs sounded like train wrecks.  Todrick flipped songs just for the heck of it, and didn’t care how they sounded.  And the initial productions of season 10 did not translate well on the stage.  They did nothing to help the contestants.

    There is obviously a huge part of the AI audience that has a bias against any music that is not rock, and that is contemporary, but maybe AI would attract a more diverse group of viewers if we had contestants who could actually pull of a more modern style, like we had this year, but not with Todrick or Naima, and if those contestants are allowed to steer away from Urban AC songs, so far, we haven’t seen that yet.

  • justmefornow

    Me too. I’m in the dreaded Idol demographic age range, but I can’t stand the watered down/cream cheese lite rock. Don’t even bother then.

    Some of us Idol rock fans prefer the real thing. That’s probably why last year was the first year I starting watching again in over 3 years (since Cook, and even he wasn’t really “rock” enough for me). I was really disappointed this year with the lack of rock representation. I had high hopes for Erika early on, hoping for a break out rock performance, she had the pipes for it, but it never happened. 

    If no rockers make it into the live shows next year, I’m probably done.

  • jan

     

    Top 40 prefers female artists, and males with higher pitched voices, so
    that the predominately tween and teen audience can sing along with the
    singer.

    I agree. If I can easily imagine a song being sung loudly by a bunch of pre-teen girls in the back seat of a car, then I usually predict it will be a major Top 40 hit. I’ve used this rule for a number of songs & predicted their success. Kelly’s Stronger is one of those songs that passed the pre-teen test.

  • Anonymous

    XFactor and The Voice aren’t “hip” either. Just because they might sing the occasional song from this century doesn’t make the show or the contestants “hip” or relevant. Javier and Jermaine aren’t any more current or “edgier” than  the Idol winners. In fact, I’d say that they are actually less current and “edgy” than several of the Idols. Same thing with The winner and runner-up of XFactorUSA — no one can seriously describe Melanie or Josh as cool or current or edgy. Chris Rene has a current style and I guess he could be considered maybe kinda “cool”, but his music isn’t really all that edgy, either. In my opinion, Astro is the only one out of the XFactorUSA contestants who might possibly be considered “edgy” —  if his music matures as he grows up.

    As for the XFactorUK, people like Cher Lloyd and One Direction and The Wanted may be current and the tween/teen crowd might think they are “cool”, but they aren’t edgy or even particularly original. 1D and The Wanted are basically current versions of every boy band that’s come before them — minus the dancing. Given the lifespan of most boy bands, I have my doubts of how long they will even stick together. Doesn’t mean they aren’t mega successful right now, of course. But are they going to be able to do what Kelly Clarkson has done — stay relevant and popular for 10 years? Let’s just say I have my doubts.

    To be honest, none of these reality shows are going to produce very many artists who are hip and/or edgy. Most of them are going to be very mainstream artists who aren’t going to really stand out from the crowd. At best, they will bring enough talent and originality and fit in well enough to the current music scene to appeal to music buyers enough to have some sort of success for 5 years or so.

  • http://twitter.com/tinawinabina Tinawina

    But can you name someone who did this well. 

    But that’s the problem isn’t it? What’s “well”? Isn’t that subjective? I thought Umbrella was great, I never though Naimia sounded “horrible” but once, when she ran out of breath. But, it’s not like Phil or Lee’s occasionally rough vocals are held against them anyway. And Phil’s rearrangements pretty much sounded all the same to me. But when Naimia doesn’t advance far, it’s clearly because of her “rough” vocals or her “not good enough” arrangements? I mean, someone downthread mentioned Skylar, who is a guitar playing songwriter and sucessfully flipped several songs to country, yet no one even talks about her as an “artist”… the show didn’t care and the audience wasn’t impressed enough for her to even make top 3. And I could go on. I liked a lot of the re-arrangements, and some of them got great judge critiques, but the audience forgets about them and doesn’t care at all.

    I’m not attacking you personally and I’m not saying the non-rock contestants were perfect. I’m just saying that I think its pretty clear they are being judged by a different standard. Doing the same thing as others but in a genre other than rock just doesn’t have the same payoff on Idol.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/DJ4FPAE2BM4XDCNVQITJSS3S2Q Sue

    Rock arrangements don’t always get appreciation either, case in point: James’ arrangement of Love Potion #9.

  • Anonymous

    ‘I think my issue is that somewhere along the line, a lot of rock music
    decided that being “intense” was more important than being
    “interesting.” ‘

    Yep, I completely agree with that. Don’t like the stuff from the the intense-just-for-the-purpose-of-being-intense people either!

    I probably should listen to more contemporary rock because I’m sure there is more stuff there that I would like than I currently know about. A lot that people have played for me has sounded sort of sleepy and gloomy in a banal sort of way, so I haven’t really tried very hard on my own, since there were other options. I sort of figured that maybe the rock idiom had played itself pretty completely out when it came to really interesting stuff with some sort of cutting edge… sort of the way the big band era did. heh. I have to say that Daughtry, Cook, Lee … did nothing to convince me that I was wrong about that, even though I thought that Chris and David had a lot of potential, when they were on the show. Glad to hear that there is still interesting rock being produced — maybe it’s worth giving the genre a new look after all!

    You’re completely right about the other genres on Idol being just as capable of producing something boring. Rock disappoints me more, I suppose, because it was once my favorite!

  • iani

    “I agree. If I can easily imagine a song being sung loudly by a bunch of pre-teen girls in the back seat of a car”

    Exactly, today music is like fashion; making music to sound young, fresh for younger-demo(even if you’re not a so young-singer) is the trend in music now: happy sound, cute or direct messages, even fashion choices, videos, everything visually in connection with the sound  matters I think… I saw some videos from Much Music Award for example, many teens there were ventilating themselves like Carly Rae in her video because of young-cute singers on the stages; the only “odd”  performance was from Ed Sheeran but the lyrics were up there though talking about a troubled teen… Making reliable music for a larger spectrum of audience, or a specific demo or genre is pretty important in MO to have success.

    “Some of us Idol rock fans prefer the real thing. That’s probably why
    last year was the first year I starting watching again in over 3 years
    (since Cook, and even he wasn’t really “rock” enough for me).”

    AI has started as a pop show, the replica of POP Idol in UK, then other connotations as R&B, country, Rock have gained some “space” in with every year maybe as a change in demo too, but I don’t think rock was meant to be an important part/format of the show, thinking about the contestants’ selection for Hollywood or top 24 for example; it’s a format that hardy has/gets radio-plays, or visible success  in order to  keep up the show’s franchise through the winners. Cook was a winner too back then and I don’t think he was supposed to fulfill the rock-fans tastes with some help from TPTB as a winner(James has been the lucky one not winning, I don’t think TPTB would have sent him to active rock directly; Daughtry was luckier, they gave him a band and the all star-support even before to reach the million album-sales mark); I wanted too for DC to go more rock, but in general for me talent speaks first to support an idol, the “it” factor, the connections of the artist’s music with the voice/talent… I don’t buy/listen only/to rock music (as my guilty pleasure also), I buy/listen to music from many genres that I feel (in my own taste) the quality/beauty is in that makes it listenable.

    I can’t “ask” for more from some artists coming from a talent-show, that I’ve liked them in the competition to come immediately and fit my musical “taste”, I give them some time, see their talent/music-progression and then I take a decision if I continue follow/(buy their music)them or not.

    ETA: “Rock arrangements don’t always get appreciation either”

    “And Phil’s rearrangements pretty much sounded all the same to me. But when Naimia doesn’t advance far, it’s clearly because of her “rough” vocals or her “not good enough.”

    I think the contestants that were constantly good, not saying extraordinary, during their runs, had some non karaoke replica of the songs, some charisma and not trying too hard to prove they are good, but exuding their good, artistic part in a natural way, these had succeeded further. AI is a competition working/competing under the pressure, your work-ethic and strategy, should be calculated carefully to beat your “enemy-friend” to go further and not to be the victim of your grittiness to share the talents at once at the wrong time/step in the competition .

  • blackberryharvest

    Its interesting how people keep saying country has it easy on idol, when in reality, we have only had 2 country winners and only 3 country artists have ever made the final 2. This season, the lone country singer didn’t even make the top 4. More than ever this season, we say R&B start to be favored more-Joshua and Jessica both in the top 3 over Skylar.

    Also, I don’t think The X Factor or The Voice are any more “hip” than idol. So far, the two that have won the Voice are 90s-era male African-American singers. The runner up this year was a throwback rocker chick. On The X Factor, we had a 90s-era big voice diva as the winner and an idol-esque “soft rocker” as the runner up.

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